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A47
WEDNESDAY,
APRIL 15,
2015
• Twitter: @GuardianTT • Web: guardian.co.tt
NEW YORK---The Boston Celtics
will play the Sacramento Kings in
Mexico City, Mexico, in December,
the NBA s third regular-season
game in Mexico for the season.
It will be the league s 22nd game
in Mexico overall, the most for any
country outside the United States
and Canada.
The December 3 game will be the
centerpiece of a trip that will also
include community programs and
interactive fan events.
The NBA is also planning two
preseason games in China between
the Charlotte Hornets and Los An-
geles Clippers. More international
games will be announced, the
league said. (AP)
Celtics, Kings to play in Mexico City
DirecTV W Connection will kick
off its bid for a fourth Caribbean
Football Union Club Championship
crown when it faces Guyana Defence
Force in the future match of a Group
Two double-header at the Ato
Boldon Stadium, Couva from 8 pm
tonight.
This after SAP FC of Antigua &
Barbuda comes up against Jamaica s
Waterhouse from 5.30 pm in the day s
opener at the same venue.
Winners on three previous ocas-
sions from seven trips to the final, W
Connection last competed in the CFU
Club competition in 2013 and is cur-
rently in the end stages of trying to
retain its Digicel T&T Pro League
cronw as it trails fellow CFU Club
Championship competitors, Central
FC by six points with two and three
matches to play for each club.
However, from today until Sunday,
St Lucian-born W Connection coach
Stuart Charles-Fevrier and his 18-
man squad will have one lone aim,
which is to top its round-robin group
to advance to the April 22 semifinals.
Speaking on the eve on the tour-
nament, Charles-Fevrier said he was
very satisfied in terms of the eligibility
of the squad.
He added: "We have a really good
squad based on the players we have
to choose from and we expect all the
teams will showcase a good level of
football, hence we cannot underesti-
mate the other teams because they
are ambitious of qualifying for the
Champions League also."
The longstanding W Connection
coach stated, "Football now, isnt like
my playing days when T&T played
against other Caribbean nations. Back
then you didn t have to show up
because you knew T&T was going to
win.
"But football has changed a lot since
then. People are more educated in
football now. The coaching and devel-
opment that s going on in the other
islands have improved. Even the qual-
ity of football that everyone watches
on television is at a very high quality.
The whole self esteem and confidence
are on a higher level now across the
Caribbean, with players realising the
opportunities they have to play
abroad.
"On the skill level, T&T players are
still better but that doesn t guarantee
us a win. We still have to play at our
best. But I am confident in our ability
and in that regard we intend to win
the group."
Included in the W Connection
squad are recent T&T senior team
call-ups, Akeem Garcia, Shannon
Gomez, Maurice Ford, national
defenders Mekeil Williams and Alvin
Jones, as well as Jomol Williams,
Jerrel Britto and former Finland-based
Shannon Winchester.
While not much is known of SAP
FC and Guyana Defence Force, Water-
house arrived in T&T yesterday with
a strong squad led by club captain
and goalkeeper Richard Mc Callum.
And speaking in the Jamaica
Observer earlier this week Mc Callum
said he was looking forward to another
positive showing from his team.
It is the second year in succession
that Waterhouse is competing in the
competition after last season s suc-
cessful run saw them progressing to
the Concacaf Club Championship,
where they performed creditably
before being eliminated.
"Last year, for the CFU Club Cham-
pionship, we went into the tourna-
ment very focused, well prepared with
an intention to do well and this year,
we are going in just as focused, but
the level of [financial] support we had
last year is missing this year. Nonethe-
less, our intention is to do just as good
as we did last year, and hopefully we
can take it much further," he said.
Leading the Waterhouse attack is
Jamaican international striker, Jer-
maine "Tuffy" Anderson,
Meanwhile Central FC, last season s
Pro League runner-up left for Guyana
yesterday, where it will makes its tour-
nament bow in Group One against
host, Alpha United, the Guyana cham-
pions and Suriname s Inter Moengo-
tapoe, which has won its league title,
six of the last eight seasons. Haiti will
host Group Three and Four of this
season s Caribbean Club Champi-
onship.
W Connection shifts
focus to CFU Club tourney
DirecTV W Connection's Yhon Stiven Reyes Lopez, second from left, is
congratulated by team-mates Hashim Arcia, right, Mekeil Williams and Jerrel
Britto, left after scoring in a recent Digicel T&T Pro League 2-0 win over Pt Fortin
Civic at the Hasley Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo. PHOTO: ANTHONY HARRIS
FIXTURES
GROUP ONE (GUYANA):
Venue: Guyana National Stadium,
Providence
Today:
Alpha United (GUY) vs Inter Moengotapoe
(SUR), 4 pm
Friday:
Inter Moengotapoe (SUR) vs Central FC
(T&T), 4 pm
Sunday:
Alpha United (GUY) vs Central FC (T&T), 4
pm
GROUP TWO (T&T):
Venue: Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva
Today:
SAP FC (ATG) vs Waterhouse FC (JAM),
5.30 pm
W Connection (T&T) vs Guyana Defence
Force (GUY), 8 pm
Friday:
Waterhouse FC (JAM) vs Guyana Defence
Force (GUY), 5.30 pm
W Connection (T&T) vs SAP FC (ATG), 8
pm
Sunday:
Guyana Defence Force (GUY) vs SAP FC
(ATG), 5.30 pm
W Connection (T&T) vs Waterhouse FC
(JAM), 8 pm
GROUP THREE (HAITI):
Venue: Complexe Sportif des Cayes (Les
Cayes)
Today:
Montego Bay United (JAM) vs Club Sportif
Moulien (GLP), 3.30 pm
America FC (HAI) vs SV Excelsior (SUR), 6
pm
Friday:
Club Sportif Moulien (GLP) vs SV Excelsior
(SUR), 3.30 pm
America FC (HAI) vs Montego Bay United
(JAM), 6 pm
Sunday:
SV Excelsior (SUR) vs Montego Bay
United (JAM), 3.30 pm
America FC (HAI) vs Club Sportif Moulien
(GLP), 6 pm
GROUP FOUR (HAITI):
Venue: Stade Sylvio Cator, Port-au-Prince
Today:
Helenites Sporting Club (VIR) vs Unite
Sainte Rose (GLP), 4 pm
Don Bosco FC (HAI) vs Lyford Cay FC
(BAH), 6.30 pm
Friday:
Unite Sainte Rose (GLP) vs Lyford Cay FC
(BAH), 4 pm
Don Bosco FC (HAI) vs Helenites Sporting
Club (VIR), 6.30 pm
Sunday:
Lyford Cay FC (BAH) vs Helenites Sporting
Club (VIR), 4 pm
Don Bosco FC (HAI) vs Unite Sainte Rose
(GLP), 6.30 pm
SEMIFINALS:
April 22:
Winner Group One vs Winner Group Two
Winner Group Three vs Winner Group Four
FINALS AND 3RD PLACE MATCHES:
April 24
Akeem Garcia, Shannon Gomez, Maurice
Ford, Julani Archibald, Aquelius Sylvester,
Mekeil Williams, Kurt Frederick, Triston
Hodge, Christian Viveros, Alvin Jones,
Gerard Williams, Christian Rodriguez,
Yhon Stiven Reyes Lopez, Hashim Arcia,
Jomol Williams, Jerrel Britto, Shannon
Winchester, Neil Benjamin Jr
W CONNECTION SQUAD
APPLAUSE:
West Indies fast
bowler KEMAR
ROACH snatched
4/94 in 29 overs
against England in
the first innings of
the first Test at the
Sir Vivian Richards
Stadium, in Antigua.
PLAIN TALK:
"We are not taking
things lightly. We are
going to treat these
players like employ-
ees of the board and
they will have to
show up to continue
their development as
cricketers."
President of the T&T
Cricket Board AZIM
BASSARATH on the
T&T cricketers doing
continuous training.
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